2003
The End of the Past
Seminar with
Aldo Schiavone
Professor, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Director, Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane
Robbins Collection, Berkeley
September 27, 2003
Aldo Schiavone's book The End of The Past raises challenging questions not only for scholars of ancient history but for modern historians and legal historians as well. The recent publication in English translation of this work has provided an excellent opportunity to focus scholarly attention from across disciplines on the role of history and the law in the development of western culture. With this goal in mind, the Robbins Collection organized an intensive one-day seminar around the book that was led by Professor Schiavone and Professor Glen Bowersock, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. The seminar brought together a small group of distinguished scholars from multiple fields of expertise. The result of this collaboration was a fruitful interdisciplinary forum on law, history and culture in western society.
Participants
Glen Bowersock
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Erich Gruen
Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley
Christopher Jones
Departments of History and the Classics, Harvard University
Julius Kirshner
Department of History, The University of Chicago
Laurent Mayali
Robbins Collection, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Aldo Schiavone
Facoltà di Giurisprudenza, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Antonio Serrano González
Facultat de Dret, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Brent Shaw
Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
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